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Complete 4-manifolds with uniformly positive isotropic curvature

Differential Geometry 2014-02-21 v9

Abstract

We prove the following result: Let (X,g0)(X,g_0) be a complete, connected 4-manifold with uniformly positive isotropic curvature and with bounded geometry. Then there is a finite collection F\mathcal{F} of manifolds of the form S3×R/G\mathbb{S}^3 \times \mathbb{R} /G, where GG is a fixed point free discrete subgroup of the isometry group of the standard metric on S3×R\mathbb{S}^3\times \mathbb{R}, such that XX is diffeomorphic to a (possibly infinite) connected sum of copies of S4,RP4\mathbb{S}^4,\mathbb{RP}^4 and/or members of F\mathcal{F}. This extends recent work of Chen-Tang-Zhu and Huang. We also extend the above result to the case of orbifolds. The proof uses Ricci flow with surgery on complete orbifolds.

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@article{arxiv.0912.5405,
  title  = {Complete 4-manifolds with uniformly positive isotropic curvature},
  author = {Hong Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.5405},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

The paper has been withdrawn by the author since it will be incorporated in the newest version of arXiv:1107.1469